Spirituality Archive

No matter what one’s religious affiliation, there is no denying that one of the most readily recognizable figures in all of the world’s religions is none other than Jesus Christ. There is a rich history of stories and adventures attributed to this iconic figure, but did one…

When a large group of students starts acting strangely, some collapsing and others convulsing, most school administrators would call a doctor or at least check to see if the students hadn’t studied for a surprise quiz. At a school in the Philippines last week, they took the…

Need something to get her to notice you when flowers don’t work? Want to drive out an evil spirit or domineering boss? Suffering from black jaundice? Then the “Handbook of Ritual Power” is the book for you. This 20-page, 1,300-year-old Egyptian book of spells has been translated…

Hundreds are crying in the streets, hundreds of others are praying and setting up camp here. Some are even panicking and believe this is a sign of the end of the world. I have never seen anything like this in my whole career. That’s the scene reported…

Have you ever wanted to see what a real exorcism looks like? Can you squint for two minutes? Now you can do both as a Catholic priest in the Czech Republic has confirmed that an Internet video of an exorcism shot through a keyhole is the real…

There is something about ancient books and texts that holds a certain sense of mystery and allure. To hold something that was once handled by ancient hands long ago brings with it a fascination about the past, and the enigmatic knowledge held within the worn, dusty pages…

Quantum mechanics operates on a spectrum of possibility or probability, while classical physics operates on a binary understanding of reality where things either happen or they don’t. Some physicists, relying on the groundbreaking work of Hugh Everett III (1930-1982), have taken to arguing that there’s an easy…

King James I used conventional means to avoid assassination by Guy Fawkes and the rest of the Gunpowder Plot gang but newly-discovered evidence showed his friends resorted to supernatural aid to protect him from evil spirits. Scratch marks found in wooden beams and floorboards of a country…

Revealed by satellite in 2011, the enormous geoglyph of a moose in the Ural Mountains of Russia is believed to be 6,000 years old, making it the world’s oldest example of this massive art form. New analysis of the small tools found around the site suggests that…

When you look up from Earth, you see stars. When you look down, you see circles – crop circles, geoglyphs like the Nazca lines, Siberian holes. Archeologists in Jordan recently used satellites to take high-definition photographs of some other famous circles – the aptly-named Big Circles of…

Sri Lankan politician Wimal Weerawansa, the leader of that nation’s left-wing National Freedom Front party, recently revealed in a speech that “white gentlemen” from an international space agency came to his country and attempted to steal fragments of a meteor that may contain evidence of alien life….

Richard Dawkins suggested earlier this month that humanity needs to broadcast a “cosmic tombstone” so that future civilizations can learn what we were about, in the event of our collective demise. It isn’t a terrible idea, or even a terribly new idea, but it raises some interesting…